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(No Model) A. H. STEVENS. LIGHTING IMPLEMENT FOR owns.

No. 585,893. Patented July 6, 1897.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE.

ALFRED H. STEVENS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONEIIALF TO LEO FRANK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LIGHTING IMPLEMENT FOR CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,893, dated July 6, 1897.

Application filed September 28, 1896. Serial No. 607,236. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED I-I. STEVENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Lighting Implement'for Cigars and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide efficient, compact, reliable, and comparatively inexpensive means for enabling smokers and others to obtain a light from matches in positions exposed to wind and drafts, and, second, to furnish in connection with such means a supply of matches.

To these ends my invention comprises the improvements hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description,taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device embodying features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the device illustrated in Fig. 1 combined with a match safe or box, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a modification of my invention.

In the drawings, a is a body or shank provided with a shield 19 and with an overlying plate 0.

d are serrations or roughened surfaces.

The shield b may well be made slightly concave, and the plate 0 may be formed by bending over the end of the body a, as shown in Fig. 1, in which case an opening, as e, is provided. As shown in Fig. 3, the overlying plate is connected with the sides of the body.

f is a groove which when present serves as a guide.

As illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, the body or shank of the lighting implement constitutes one member, in the present instance the bottom, of a boX or safe g, having four sides and roughened surfaces d, and so that the ignited head is brought close up to and in front of the shield. By holding the shield with its back toward the direction from which the wind is blowing extinguishment of the match is prevented and ample opportunity for obtaining a light is afforded to the smoker or other user of the device.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains that modifications may be made in details without departing from the spirit thereof. Hence I do not limit myself to the precise construction and arrangement of parts hereinabove setforth and illustrated in the accompanying drawings; but,

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A lighting implement for cigars and the like comprising a body or shank, having a wind-shield, and provided with an overlying plate spaced therefrom and adapted to clamp a match longitudinally therebetween and with serrations under said shield, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a lighting implement for cigars and the like comprising a body or shank having a shield and provided with an overlying plate and with serrations, with four parts anda lid constituting a box of which the other part comprises the body or shank, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

ALFRED I'I. STEVENS.

In presence of- ALFRED J. WILKINsON, K. M. GILLIGAN. 

